Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast · Travis Sherry

2025 Year In Review - Best Experiences

·1 hr 20 min·4 clips

These podcast hosts pulled their kids out of school to meet their favorite celebrities—and the kids still cherish the signed Crocs from that day.

A population question opens the route. Before the memories start, the host asks which U.S. states are projected to grow the most by percentage by 2050, because even a year end recap can pause for a statistics detour. That tracks for this show. The conversation takes its usual loose runway, drifting from migration curiosity into a format with ten picks each and a few honorable mentions. Then the list gets personal. One day starts with a boat moving down the intercoastal while the sun is getting low and other boats bunch up in a stopped cluster. The reason is dolphins. They watch for about 10 or 15 minutes as dolphins jump close enough that someone compares the scene to SeaWorld. Nobody hurries through it. From there, the day keeps adding little reasons to remember it. Masonboro Island comes next. Since it is only reachable by boat, and it is a Friday in May, the place feels almost empty when they arrive. They cross toward the beach and find the Atlantic side open and quiet, with the kids jumping, the sun setting, and that rare travel feeling where everyone can tell the day is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. The sunset finishes the job. Cruising at night turns the whole thing into one of those moments where they can say they moved there for a reason. The joke keeps going afterward: when visitors talk about coming down, the hosts tease that they will queue up the dolphins and the guest might move there too. The ending looks ahead. Someone has invited them to Estonia and promised an authentic visit, helped by the claim that in a country of about 1 million people, they know everyone and everything. Heather sounds game. With few plans set for 2026, Estonia becomes a likely maybe, already sitting there as a possible top-five experience if it happens.

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A year-end travel recap that finds its best shape in the moments worth remembering.

Extra Pack of Peanuts closes its six-part 2025 year-in-review run as a warm, loosely organized travel scrapbook. It starts with a state-population guessing game, then moves through rankings and honorable mentions before landing on the moments that linger: a sunset cruise,…

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